Unweaving the Rainbow - science, delusion and the appetite for wonder

Clinton Richard Dawkins

Mariner Books

2000

352 páginas

11h 44m

ISBN-10: 0618056734

Did Newton "unweave the rainbow" by reducing it to its prismatic colors, as Keats contended? Did he, in other words, diminish beauty? Far from it, says acclaimed scientist Richard Dawkins; Newton's unweaving is the key to much of modern astronomy and to the breathtaking poetry of modern cosmology. Mysteries don't lose their poetry because they are solved: the solution often is more beautiful than the puzzle, uncovering deeper mysteries. With the wit, insight, and spellbinding prose that have made him a best-selling author, Dawkins takes up the most important and compelling topics in modern science, from astronomy and genetics to language and virtual reality, combining them in a landmark statement of the human appetite for wonder.
This is the book Richard Dawkins was meant to write: a brilliant assessment of what science is (and isn't), a tribute to science not because it is useful but because it is uplifting.

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Richard Dawkins’s previous books have established him as a leading figure in the new literature of science. This is his first book to move away from the particular task of explaining evolution. Elegant, witty and often moving, it is also his most personal and provocative book. An inspiring defence of the scientific imagination, <i>Unweaving the Rainbow</i> is as pleasurable and uplifting as it is timely and important.